The Meyer Foundation has received two gold awards for excellence in communications from the 2007 Wilmer Shields Rich Awards program. Sponsored by the Council on Foundations, the national awards program recognizes effective communications efforts to increase public awareness of foundations and corporate giving programs.Read more
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation has selected its first Exponent Award winners: a talented musician who created a safe haven for young people to learn and grow through artistic self-expression during the vulnerable after-school hours; a former civil servant who now leads an organization that provides free, full-day care to the District's homeless infants, toddlers and preschoolers; the founder of a legal resource center that provides a voice for hundreds of poor Asian immigrants with limited English proficiency; a creative thinker whose organization solves problems facing low-income residents of Northern Virginia; and a leader who is spearheading the rehabilitation of some of Adams Morgan's last affordable housing units.Read more
The Meyer Foundation received an award for Excellence in Service to the Arts at the 22nd Annual Mayor's Arts Awards held Monday, March 19, 2007, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The award is given to an individual or a private, public, or government organization that has demonstrated a substantial history of exemplary leadership, financial support, or other services vital to the development of the arts in the District of Columbia.Read more
The Meyer Foundation received the 2007 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Community Partnership Award with the Center for Nonprofit Advancement and The Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington.Read more
Kristen Conte, the Meyer Foundation's Vice President for Finance and Administration, received The Lifetime Achievement Award at the Nonprofit CFO of the Year Awards Luncheon, hosted by Tate & Tryon and West, Lane & Schlager at the Mayflower Hotel on November 1.Read more
The Meyer Foundation was awarded a Gold Award for its annual report in the 2007 MarCom Awards competition, with honorable mention for writing and design. The MarCom Awards is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. The gold award is presented to those entries judged to exceed the high standards of the industry norm. Entries come from corporate marketing and communications departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies, and freelancers.Read more
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation announces the recipients of its 2008 Exponent Award, which celebrates visionary nonprofit leadership and includes a $100,000 cash award for the recipient's organization.Read more
Meyer Foundation Director of Programs Rick Moyers has received the Grantmaker in Capacity Building Award from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management. Moyers, together with Mary Ann Holohean, founder of the Foundation's Nonprofit Sector Fund, was honored at the Alliance Annual Conference in July. Read more
Today, the Meyer Foundation announced the recipients of its 2011 Exponent Awards, which recognize outstanding nonprofit executive directors. The 2011 Exponent Award recipients are Manny Hidalgo, Executive Director of the Latino Economic Development Corporation (LEDC); Lecester Johnson, Executive Director of Academy of Hope; and Amy Nakamoto, Executive Director, DC SCORES.Read more
The Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation announces the recipients of its 2010 Exponent Award. The award celebrates visionary nonprofit leadership in the region and includes a $100,000 cash award for the recipient's organization.Read more
